While fleeing, the staircase collapsed killing 19 people (Jews and one Christian girl).

The majority of the deaths occurred when a staircase collapsed as the girls fled the building.

The exposed cellar was strewn with garbage, but the staircase had long since collapsed.

An interior staircase, which employees used as a shelter, collapsed causing four injuries.

Four of them were burned and bruised when a staircase collapsed beneath them.

The main staircase had collapsed long ago; only the upper flight remained, hanging precariously in space.

The back staircase collapsed a few weeks later.

The staircase, rocked to its foundations by the growth in the dirt around it, collapsed like a tower of cards.

In September 1863, several Confederate prisoners were killed when a staircase collapsed.

Seconds later he emerged holding the other man; obviously a staircase or a floorboard had collapsed.